Bob Hyatt offers an excellent thought on why some churches are not holding worship services on Christmas day.
I was surprised to hear that my parent’s smaller church was not having a worship service on Christmas day. I don’t know why, but I just expected they would have a service.
The thing that bothers me about canceled services, and I know this affects a small number of people, is that if you’re far from family where you live, you might want to celebrate Christmas with the family of God.
Any ways, back to Bob’s post…
He brings out a larger structural issue in his post. The production of a worship service requires a vast supply of human resources. When those diminish, the production falls apart and you can’t have a worship service. I agree with him that many churches are just too dang big. The argument goes that the larger churches have resources to do things that smaller churches do not… but larger churches have their needs more defined and it’s actually easier to throw the machine off. And the bigger the church gets, the more difficult it is to adapt. If you don’t fit into the structure of machine, oh well…
All right. I’ve gotta run. I have a performance in a little bit over an hour… last weekend for both plays I’m in!
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